The Dynamics of Visual Art Dialogues: Experiences to Be Used in Hospital Settings with Visual Art Enrichment

The Dynamics of Visual Art Dialogues: Experiences to Be Used in Hospital Settings with Visual Art Enrichment

Objectives. Given that hospitals have environmental enrichment with paintings and visual art arrangement, it would be meaningful to develop and document how hospital art could be used by health professionals. Methods. The study was undertaken at an art site in Sweden. During 1-hour sessions, participants (n = 20) get together in an art gallery every second week five times. Results. According to...

Seniors’ experiences of visual art environmental enrichment

The present study aimed at determining whether short-term exposure to art in shared common areas in congregate housing units could affect health and health determinants among the residents. Ten residents (mean age 80.4 years) at one block were exposed to visual art environmental enrichment in common areas over a period of three months. Thirteen persons (mean age 86.6 years) living in another bl...

MFA in Visual Art

ion) Same as F20 612F. First-year MFAs (only) register for F20 512F. This course examines strategies of abstraction and nonobjective image-making that originate in the painting studio, including those that are driven by concept, material, space and/ or process. Readings and discussion will examine the evolution and history of abstraction and its present applications within a contemporary studio...

The Neuropsychology of Visual Art

HCI Cannot Be Used to Evaluate Art

Critiquing Art I agree with the workshop organizers that it is not constructive to evaluate interactive artwork under the same guidelines as traditional HCI work. There are often extremely divergent goals associated with artists and HCI researchers. Yes, there may be obvious parallels such as an artist that wants to insure that their work is correctly interpreted. However, art critique ≠ intera...